SAM ALLARDYCE last night derided Bolton chairman Phil Gartside after seeing Newcastle make a mockery of a pre-match blast by his former boss.

Gartside chose the day of Allardyce’s return to Bolton to insist that the Trotters are better off without his “boring” brand of football.

But Big Sam had the last laugh as his new side sealed a crushing win with three goals in the opening half-hour – and then had the final word . . .

Accusing Gartside of being “obsessed” with rubbishing his seven-year reign at the Reebok.

“He (Gartside) has being saying an awful lot about Sam Allardyce, but Sam Allardyce has moved on,” said the Newcastle boss.

“I left this football club in a very, very healthy state – the best it has ever been.

“He believes I’ve done certain things that I haven’t. He’s obsessed by it and he should know better. Life moves on.

“I brought him great success, so I don’t know how he can make those comments.

“For me, actions spoke louder than words today – we’ve played them off the park and won the game and that says everything to me.”

But despite his delight at making a flying start to his maiden season at Newcastle, Allardyce insisted: “With the support of the new owner and chairman we have moved forward very, very quickly, but we are 40 per cent towards where I want to be.

“We’ve got another 60 per cent to go, and to get there we have to win football matches.

“That happened in a very good 45 minutes today. We killed the opposition off – and the normally dramatic second half which comes our way – stone dead.”

But Allardyce’s former No 2 and now Bolton boss, Sammy Lee, was anything but happy.

“I don’t know what went wrong. We just didn’t turn up for the first 45 minutes.

“Am I looking for new recruits before the close of the transfer window? I’m going to recruit an alarm clock to make sure we wake up earlier.”

Should Newcastle hold out for #8 million for Dyer?

“NOT if it puts clubs off buying him. It’s clear he’s given up on Newcastle and you can’t blame the fans for giving up on him. Get rid – for &pound;6 million or even less.”

ALAN METCALFE, Wallsend.

“NO. It makes no sense to me that we upped the price on West Ham. Dyer hasn’t played enough – or well enough - in the last few seasons to be worth anything like #8 million.”

GRAHAM STEPHENSON, Gosforth.

“I JUST can’t understand what we’re playing at. He wants out, the fans want him out and West Ham were willing to pay good money – and #6 million IS good money for Dyer – to get him out.”